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Aleksander Lazursky's Personality Concept CULTURE – SOCIETY – EDUCATION NO. 2 (16) 2019 POZNAŃ Dmitry Leontiev* Moscow State University and Institute of Existential Psychology and Life Enhancement Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: from inclinations to relations. Problem of personality: Petersburg School of Psychology**12 KEYWORDS ABSTRACT character, personality, inclina- Leontiev Dmitry, Aleksander Lazursky’s personality con- tions, attitudes, endopsychic, cept: from inclinations to relations. Problem of person- exopsychic ality: Petersburg School of Psychology. Culture – Soci- ety – Education no 2(16) 2019, Poznań 2019, pp. 55–69, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-0422. DOI 10.14746/kse.2019.16.4. The article discusses the dynamics of psychological views of A.F. Lazursky (1874-1917), author of one of the first the- ories of personality in the world of psychology. There are two stages in Lazursky’s work: the first is associated with the concept of nature as an internal individually-typologi- cal basis of personality, and the second one is determined by introduction and more intensive development of ideas about an attitude towards the world as an important com- ponent of the personality structure. The primary aim of the article is to highlight the role of Lazursky in international psychology. When analysing the native [Russian – A.K] concepts of personality, it is impossible to avoid a standard presentation of both the Moscow and the Petersburg psycho- * ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2252-9805. ** Translation from Russian and compilation: Aleksandra Kondrat, Nicolaus Copernicus Uni- versity, [email protected] 56 Dmitry Leontiev logical tradition. In the area of personality psychology, these traditions developed in opposition to each other. Until the 1970s, psychologists from Moscow did not make any significant progress in this area: Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) presented a series of interesting ideas, yet failed to take a step forward in the realm of the theory of personality. Sergei Leonidovich Rubinstein (1889–1960) did not over- come the gap between innovative philosophical anthropology and the traditional and weakly-structured description of personality. Sketches of Alexei Nikolaevich Leontiev (1903–1979) from 1940 devoted to the non-classic theory of personal- ity remained unexamined for over thirty years. Theory of relations of Vladimir Nikolaeivch Myasishchev was beyond any competition between 1950 and 1960. In the 1970s, breakthrough personality concepts of Alexei Nikolaeivch Leontiev and Volf Solomonovich Merlin (1898–1982) were created. At the present moment, the research work of Merlin and in particular Leontiev is continued by their students. Myasishchev’s theory of personality encountered a different fate. Originally, the concept was used for psycho-therapeutic work, and not for scientific studies, as it was not properly coordinated with the basis of empirical studies. Myasishchev’s students developed the therapeutic, but not the theoretical aspects of his theory, much better. In the 1990s, results accomplished by the founders of the Petersburg School of Psychology attracted attention once again: Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857–1927) and Alexander Lazursky (1874–1917).1 This paper is devoted to Lazursky’s concept of personality which, thanks to a careful analysis, may become not only the first comprehensive theory of personality in the Russian psychology, but practically the first such theory in the world. It is worth presenting the key ideas of Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, due to the fact that his works are dis- tinguished not only the neurophysiologic, clinical and psychological dimension, but also the overall theory of behaviour (dominated by behaviourists). In order to understand personality, the researcher presented a number of revolutionary ideas, which became the object of studies of Western psychologies only after the lapse of an extended period of time. In a monographic study entitled Objective Study of Personality (Бехтерев, 1999), as well as in several other works, Bekhterev sets forth own views as opposed to the discussion of philosopher and psychologist William James (1842–1910). Bekhterev emphasises that the “I” is the personality, which is the onset for any psychical action, simultaneously becoming the “steward of psychical functions.” Bekhterev also claims that not only oneself is the personality. 1 Aleksander Lazursky (1874–1917) is a Russian psychologist little known in Poland, for whom the priority research subjects were issues related to the man’s personality and characterology. Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: from inclinations to relations 57 Personality integrates and coordinates psychical functioning, managing specific activities. In other words, it is a “controlling principle, directing man’s thoughts, actions and deeds”. (Бехтерев, 1999: 231) The main feature of personality is its ability for independent action, taking an active stance towards the surrounding world: “From the objective point of view, personality is nothing else but an in- dependent entity, having its own psychical system, as well as individual ties with the surrounding reality.” (Бехтерев, 1999: 232). The status of (self)activity as the defining feature of personality was formulated by Bekhterev in 1905 in a work entitled Personality and the Conditions of Its Development and Health. This status came into being fifteen years before Rubinstein’s well-known work about creative activity and a quarter of a century before the formation of self-determination of Alfred Adler, Jung’s idea of orientation of the personality in line with the inner law or Gordon Allport’s principle of pro-active behaviour of personality. Bekhterev calls (self)activity a valuable gift of personality (Бехтерев, 1999: 151). Among other theories worthy of attention, it is necessary to mention signif- icant analysis of the social impact on personality (Бехтерев, 1999: 95–97), per- sonality on social life (Бехтерев, 1999: 232–235) and noteworthy interpretation of the role of social action on the formation of healthy development of personality (Бехтерев, 1999: 253). In the modern times, Bekhterev’s views on the fundamen- tal impact of the racial factor on the condition and development of personality would not have been accepted (Бехтерев, 1999: 239–240). Alexander Lazursky’s first research programme and its realisation in the study on characters This paper is devoted to the personality concept prepared by Bekhterev’s student, Alexander Fyedorovich Lazursky (1874–1917). In the course of his rather brief life, Lazursky made a number of discoveries in psychology. His specific theory of personality is not only the first native [Russian – A.K.] concept, but it also aspires to the role of the first comprehensive theory of personality in the international academic psychology (not including the accomplishments of James, who present- ed a series of important ideas which did not, however, capture the entire range of issues with respect to personality and Sigismund Freud, whose discussions will not the challenged by other theories of personality any time soon). Whilst work- ing on the general theory of personality, Lazursky moved slightly further than his colleagues from the West. However, it must be noted that the partially utopian research programme of Lazursky was not continued after his death and due to 58 Dmitry Leontiev this, it has lost its significance (except for the historical aspects). Eventually, the constructive potential of the Russian researcher’s theory should not be challenged; it influenced a number of important cases in modern psychology (Брушлинский, Кольцова, Олейник, 1997: 432–439). Lazursky, holding a number of talks with his teacher, concluded that it is im- possible to be limited exclusively to the objective path of science. His work may be divided into two stages: the first one is the character-related stage, the second one is psycho-social. Lazursky did not introduce such division independently, due to the fact that every author accepts own work in the form of an integral system. The division introduced by the author of this paper refers to Lazursky’s statements. Until 1912, he was mainly interested in two concepts: character and characterol- ogy, which were later marginalised, due to the fact that Lazursky focused on per- sonality, claiming that it was not exclusively made up of characterology, but also contained a psycho-social aspect. Thus, Lazursky started his analyses with the studies of character and will. In 1904, he published the first personality research programme, indicating its gen- eral directives (Лазурский, 2001: 93–123). Thus, he was trying to create a com- prehensive classification of personality, starting with determination and analysis of a number of its individual features. In the initial part of the programme, he claimed: “An outline is necessary with a couple of precise and characteristic fea- tures that would allow for a direct mode of transferring the observed person to one or the other group, of assigning him/ her to one of the character types.” (Лазурский, 2001: 93). However, many problems emerged. Lazursky used the traditional path of classification, wishing to distinguish features, building the basis for their classification and taking all of them into account. He understood the emerging problems: complexity of character or mutual relations of features, yet was also hoping that it would be possible to solve them. “It is necessary to collect features on the basis of an extended, systematic observation. This
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